Activities for Bonne année

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We’ve chosen some vocabulary and grammatical concepts from this song and provided flashcards, games and exercises for you to learn and practice them.

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Activities

Vocabulary Excercises

While we usually choose 20 words and phrases out of each song, due to this song’s limited lyrics we have only chosen 15 terms to form our vocabulary list, which can be found below. You can use the following activities to learn and practice this vocabulary.

Vocabulary Flashcards – Learn the vocabulary from this song with our sets of French to English and English to French flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.

Vocabulary Games – Practice the vocabulary for this song using our memory and matching games and our word search puzzle.

Vocabulary Exercises – Fill in the missing vocabulary with drag and drop and fill in the blanks exercises.

Grammar Exercises

While this song didn’t provide much grammatically to practice, it did provide a handful of verbs in the passé composé, as well as one in the imparfait. Conjugations of these past tense verbs can be found below.

You can use the following activities to learn and practice these verbs.

Past Tense Flashcards – Practice the past tense occurrences in this song with our sets of French to English and English to French flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.

Past Tense Games – Practice the past tense verbs in this song using our memory and matching games.

Past Tense Exercises – Practice the past tense verbs in this song using our drag and drop, fill in, and highlighting exercises.

Resources

Vocabulary List

TermMeaningP of SContext
de plus en plusmore and more, increasinglyde plus en plus
débuterto start, beginverbdébute
dernierlastadjdernière
fécondfertile; productiveadjféconde
histoirestory; historyfem nounhistoire
jurerswear, vow; curse, cuss; clashverbjure
ne … plusnot anymore, no longerne plus
pareilthe same, identical; such, like thatadjpareil
pour l’essentielabove all, mainly, mostlypour l’essentiel
résolutionresolutionfem nounRésolutions
santéhealthfem nounsanté
tenirhold; take hold of, grip, grasp; restrain; manage, run; maintain, keepverbtiendra
vérifierverify, confirm, prove, check, testverbvérifier
verreglass; drinkmasc nounverre
zapperflit from one thing to another; forget all about; channel-surfverbzappé

Verb Conjugations

The following chart shows the conjugations of the verbs in this song that appear in the two French past tenses, the passé composé an the imparfait.

Passé Composé

voir = to see, watch
SingularPlural
First personj’ai vunous avons vu
Second persontu as vuvous avez vu
Third personil/elle/on a vuils/elles ont vu

zapper = flit from one thing to another; forget all about; channel-surf
SingularPlural
First personj’ai zappénous avons zappé
Second persontu as zappévous avez zappé
Third personil/elle/on a zappéils/elles ont zappé

triompher = to triumph, prevail
SingularPlural
First personj’ai triomphénous avons triomphé
Second persontu as triomphévous avez triomphé
Third personil/elle/on a triomphéils/elles ont triomphé

Imparfait

être = to be
SingularPlural
First personj’étaisnous étions
Second persontu étaisvous étiez
Third personil/elle/on étaitils/elles étaient